GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Monday’s commitment from Sundar Pichai , CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, comes amid record-setting wildfires across the U.S. Europe and Chile.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

Back in 2007, the AAP was the first national physicians’ group to make a public statement about climate change. A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the impact of global warming on their child’s health should be discussed during their routine visits.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

He was also recently appointed as a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? And if that approach feels a little familiar, maybe that’s because it’s very similar to the tactics used by another industry in the past: Big Tobacco.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” The last of the big oil companies mostly gave up on funding extreme climate denial groups like Heartland around 2007, said Brulle.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. Dramatically low water levels, the result of six years of drought, give the appearance of bathtub rings on Lake Powell in March 2007 near Page, Arizona.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It is vital that scientists understand the levels of CO2 in the ocean to form an accurate budget and keep the world on track to stay within the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 4] The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007, published in Science. [5] degrees Celsius. Int-Veen, I.,

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The 200-megawatt Lone Star Wind Farm has safely provided renewable energy since 2007, powering the equivalent of more than 86,000 average Texas homes annually.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1. Regulation of SF6 Gases in California.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Behar said the emergence of this new "economic powerhouse" of green economy companies provided hope the worst impacts of global warming could yet be averted. That compares to just eight per cent clean revenue for firms on the broader market benchmark, they said.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming. In 2007, he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC alongside Al Gore. Not bad for a boy from Rhyl.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Lord Frost is currently a senior fellow at Policy Exchange, having also recently become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That means we are less than 39 ppm below what is considered to be the redline of 450 ppm (Climate Change Research Centre [CCRC], 2007). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). Special Report - Global Warming of 1.5°C Nascimento, L.,

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2021

The gelatinous substance is really a floating blanket of out-of-control phytoplankton, stimulated by global warming. Sea snot was first reported in Turkish waters in 2007. A growing coating of “sea snot” is threatening Turkey’s coral and fisheries and preventing locals and tourists from swimming in the Sea of Marmara.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

China registered a new variety of wheat called Yannong 5158, which was developed using space mutagenesis, in 2007. And it will help answer essential questions about what makes space mutations different from those done here on earth, and where scientists should direct their efforts in order to adapt to climate change. “[If]

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

IEE has been a finalist for the Atlas Network “Templeton Freedom Award” several times, and won the award In 2007. It is not by chance that [neo]liberal institutes tend to question or delegitimize the concept of global warming,” she noted. Lips and Chafuen are also members of the Mont Pelerin Society.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The Story of Stuff, 2007 The Story of Stuff appears to be a playful, 20-minute video that is actually a dart thrown directly into the bullseye of consumerism and capitalism.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And so they fought.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

She was named one of the Top 10 Women in Cleantech by earth2tech in 2007. Bernadette Del Chiaro – Executive Director, California Solar Energy Industries Association Bernadette Del Chiaro joined CALSEIA in 2013 after serving her tenure as the Director of Clean Energy and Global Warming Programs at Environment California.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Neither the Legatum Group nor the Legatum Institute reveal details of their investments or donors.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Why, after all this time, do 15 percent of Americans fall for the lie that global warming isn’t happening? Spreading lies about global warming like these can further social divisions and undermine public and political support for action to reduce emissions, according to the Climate Action Against Disinformation’s report.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Production Gap report reveals governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. The former civil servant and vocal Brexit supporter was a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation from 2019-21.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Robert Kozloff / University of Chicago But Shinichiro Asayama, a researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan, and Mike Hulme, a geographer at the University of Cambridge, have compared this strategy to the risky subprime mortgage lending that tanked the world economy between 2007 and 2010.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

But in the 27 years between 1990-2007 there was 4.61 Drought is not new but its intensity and frequency have increased over the last thirty years due to global warming," said report co-author, Christian Aid's Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury. "It In the 29 years between 1960-1989 there was 1.27 such conflicts a year on average.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. In 2007, Lily Ledbetter sued her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for years-long gender-based pay discrimination. If you fight well, a big loss can eventually turn into an even bigger win.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Masdar officials selected Edelman to run the campaign in part because Chris Deri, a renewable energy advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, was a key member of the Edelman team, according to an October 2007 PR Week article.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Balmoral has donated £258,000 to the Tories, £67,000 to Labour and £40,000 to the Lib Dems since 2007, either directly or through subsidiaries. Balmoral also gave £5,000 to the Liberal Democrats’ local Aberdeenshire East party, whose candidate Conrad Wood works as an engineer for oil and gas firm RockRose Energy.

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